TOURNEY STAGE, 2ND ROUND: BRACKET 1, MATCH 3 - Wilco vs The 'Mats

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:55 pm

beeg Wrote:

AGIB is barely listenable to me -- a complete snoozer that I was always happy to have end before I finally gave up on it completely.

completely agree.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

i dont hear too much of a quality difference between a ghost is born, sky blue sky, and this new one

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:00 pm

rparis74 Wrote:

i dont hear too much of a quality difference between a ghost is born, sky blue sky, and this new one

You also aren't world renowned for an open mind nor discerning taste.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Elvis Fu Wrote:

rparis74 Wrote:

i dont hear too much of a quality difference between a ghost is born, sky blue sky, and this new one

You also aren't world renowned for an open mind nor discerning taste.

come on fu, you cant really like wilco too, can you? you were the one chastising me for listening to mild alt country.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i'm a wilco fan boy, if anyone was keeping score

should I add "LZ" and "JT" in bold to my signature?

DumpJack · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:11 pm

I'm actually gonna go with Wilco on this one after some consideration. If I was Tim or Let it Be it wouldn't be a contest.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

didnt YHF already beat Tim in an earlier round. goddamn opa and his seedings.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:13 pm

rparis74 Wrote:

didnt YHF already beat Tim in an earlier round. goddamn opa and his seedings.

I think so.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:14 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

rparis74 Wrote:

didnt YHF already beat Tim in an earlier round. goddamn opa and his seedings.

I think so.

I think it beat Let It Be? Because Tim is their one good album and would have probably gotten my vote.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

it was Being There

DumpJack · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:25 pm

rparis74 Wrote:

it was Being There

Wilco and the Beatles are gonna go...all....the...way.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

not surpising

harry · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:29 pm

Promethium Wrote:

e-stone Wrote:

hmmm...my favorite 'mats album and one of my least favorite wilco albums.

wilco.

If you had recently saw The Mats instead of Wilco, I think you would have went with The Mats.

Did you ever see the Mats in their heyday? Horrendous live concerts... half the songs were never finished. Somedays different band members playing different songs at the same time. Band members passing out, throwing up.

On other hand I saw Wilco two weeks ago and I worry over how happy and polished they are.

Tim would have beat Yankee... but I voted for Yankee.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:20 pm

Aside from "Can't Hardly Wait" (which, let's face it, is one of the best songs ever written by anyone in any era), Pleased To Meet Me is a pretty uneven and at times pedestrian album.

YHT has become one of the true benchmark "love it or hate it" albums. It used to really annoy me how much people liked it (mainly because I was really really burned out on it) but I'm over that. Its really pretty fucking good even if I pretty much only listen to live Wilco at this point.

shiv · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:30 pm

wilco

Thee Incident · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:14 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Aside from "Can't Hardly Wait" (which, let's face it, is one of the best songs ever written by anyone in any era), Pleased To Meet Me is a pretty uneven and at times pedestrian album.

YHT has become one of the true benchmark "love it or hate it" albums. It used to really annoy me how much people liked it (mainly because I was really really burned out on it) but I'm over that. Its really pretty fucking good even if I pretty much only listen to live Wilco at this point.

The first :08 of "I.O.U." alone puts PTMM ahead of YHF as a whole. It's the American midwestern punk answer to The Stones' "Rocks Off"

For me, anyway.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Well put

Mick · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:05 am

War on War is a great song, but other than that, YHF kinda blows.

DHRjericho · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:17 am

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:12 am

'Mats, and I happen to be with Thee Chad here (I think).

PTMM has some very nostalgic songs on it for me, it's my favorite 'mats, and Wilco has never done anything for me.

shiv · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:46 am

it's funny that the last 4 posts were for the 'mats, but they're still losing.

Thee Incident · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:51 am

boner pills Wrote:

it's funny that the last 4 posts were for the 'mats, but they're still losing.

not when you look at the rest of the results -- lotta people around here with horrible taste who apparently only have one working digit, ie, enough to click to vote but not write a coherent statement in favor of their vote.

Not that it'd matter one whit. Bad taste is bad taste.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Thee Chad Wrote:

boner pills Wrote:

it's funny that the last 4 posts were for the 'mats, but they're still losing.

not when you look at the rest of the results -- lotta people around here with horrible taste who apparently only have one working digit, ie, enough to click to vote but not write a coherent statement in favor of their vote.

Not that it'd matter one whit. Bad taste is bad taste.

I mostly agree with you here. I'm puzzled though on how you feel comfortable making such statements when you are one of the first people to get high and mighty when Radcliffe makes a similar statement about a band you might like.

shiv · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:14 am

gaslight anthem.

The Dreaded Marco · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:18 am

billy g Wrote:

Thee Chad Wrote:

boner pills Wrote:

it's funny that the last 4 posts were for the 'mats, but they're still losing.

not when you look at the rest of the results -- lotta people around here with horrible taste who apparently only have one working digit, ie, enough to click to vote but not write a coherent statement in favor of their vote.

Not that it'd matter one whit. Bad taste is bad taste.

I'm puzzled though on how you feel comfortable making such statements when you are one of the first people to get high and mighty when Radcliffe makes a similar statement about a band you might like.

I suspect this could be said about almost every post in every one of these threads. As someone said before, the hyperbole is rampant.

All the remaining albums have some redeeming qualities. Both these are admirable. YHF is my favorite Wilco album, though, and PTTM is only my 4th favorite Replacements. :shrug:

no brainer for me.

But bad taste is bad taste.

TOURNEY STAGE, 2ND ROUND: BRACKET 1, MATCH 3 - Wilco vs The 'Mats

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